Introduction to Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) with Joseph Bonneau | a16z crypto research talks

An overview of Verifiable Delay Functions, a new cryptographic tool developed since 2018. Joseph Bonneau (a16z crypto research) covers applications, basic constructions, and open questions.
About the speaker
Joseph's research and publications focus on social networking privacy, cryptographic protocols, side-channel attacks, software obfuscation, and reverse engineering. He has taught cryptocurrency courses at the University of Melbourne, NYU, Stanford, and Princeton, and received a PhD in computer science from the University of Cambridge and BS/MS degrees from Stanford. More: jbonneau.com
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Our researchers are scientists, cryptographers, and cryptocurrency experts, working to bridge the worlds of academic theory with industry practice - especially as a fundamentally new area of computer science emerges in real time. More about us: a16z.com/2022/04/21/announcing-a16z-crypto-research
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